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FROM 



l^obept (§. Ji^epsoll 



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BY 



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THROUGH A 



^Philadelphia "Ps^ehie 



1904 



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Two Goirtes Received 
AUG 13 1904 
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FROM 

Robert (3. Jtygeiasoll 

transmitted 

BY 
THROUGH A 

Philadelphia T'z^^hie 

1904 

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Introductory. 



The following message was received by means of auto- 
matic writing and is similar to one given by the same 
inspirer, in a more crude manner, and published in 
The Sermon of June, 1903. 

Automatic writing has its defenders, but there are 
those among them who do not believe that the writer is 
perfectly free from some influence in the work. The writer 
has, therefore, asked the inspirer to explain the method 
and the readers can judge for themselves as to whether the 
work is automatic or the work of inspiration through 
telepathy. 

The following is the explanation given to the request 
that Robert G. Ingersoll would explain as simply as possi- 
ble how he accomplished his work : 

"I will give you what you wish. When you send out 
your magnetic power to spiritual minds we feel a sensation 
which is like a call to a mortal mind and we gladly respond, 
feeling that we are needed in an atmosphere seeking for 
light. When I enter your presence I seldom fail to find 
the condition which is absolutely essential for my work ; 
this is a calm, serene mind, ready to accept whatever I 
choose to impress upon the passive brain. In whatever 
form you desire to work I must accept the mode. 

"The pencil you are now holding is gnided by my 
thoughts, but it is your physical strength which I use to 
move the pencil. The writing is inspired by me and I 
know that the work is as nearly automatic as many inven- 
tions worked by mortals. 

"You hold the pencil and call a guide; the guide sim- 
ply places their hand over yours to start the forces you 
possess into motion. The thought force we possess keeps the 
pencil moving until we have finished the work or your own 



mind beoomes active ; then your thoughts repel ours, or so 
darken the molecules of your brain that further work is 
impossible or so discordant that the vibrations would cause 
the work done to look like a blotted piece of paper. 

"The two minds, spirit and mortal, can only do good 
work when they work in perfect harmony ; that is the mor- 
tal mind being subjected to spiritual li^ht, which keeps it 
peaceful and calm, while the true spiritual mind is operat- 
ing the mediumistic forces." 

"What do you mean by being subjected to spiritual 
light?" 

"Just what I say. When you call a spirit you are de- 
siring spiritual light and in that desire you are clothing 
your mind with heavenly power or force. 

"This explanation I believe you will find correct. We 
do not touch your hand, but we do place our hand over 
yours, for this attracts two elements which you possess to 
act in the physical formation. 

"The former message, while containing the same facts, 
was given in a manner which often made me feel that you 
were the greater power and I the lesser light. The manner 
in which it was taken caused so many interruptions and 
breaks in sentences that I was often compelled to go back 
to the work you had done to catch the thread of my own 
work; but the pencil in your hand helps to keep the 
thought force in a smoother channel and I believe we are 
both better satisfied with the present message." 

— M. E. M. 



Experience After the Veil Was Lifted. 



To My Friends of Earth: — 

Death lifts the veil and parts the gloomy shadows sur- 
rounding the mortal mind. Brighter and better life enters 
in as the so-called death steals away the dimmed and dy- 
ing light Which had been furnished to light the mortal 
mind until it had furnished the inner light of intelligence 
with strength to ascend to blissful fields of ripening grain. 

But my shaking off of the outer covering to my true 
self was sudden and unexpected, no thought of this so- 
called death putting me in touch with what God alone 
knew and made me experience with love, not malice. 

I am happy to say I am fully aware many of my or- 
thodox friends firmly believed that the call which aroused 
my better nature to its true work was given by a just and 
avenging God, who took this means of punishing one who 
had not believed as they did. 

But could all mortals be relieved of the burden of the 
flesh as was Eobert G. Ingersoll, they would know as I do 
that it was not malice but love eternal that welcomed the 
spirit to its true work, repenting of errors of judgment, 
thoughts and words in regard to the only true God, a God 
so mighty, so holy, so pure and good that no mortal mind 
will ever be able to comprehend the power that binds the 
mortal to the immortal and sinks beneath the waves of love 
eternal all evil, all errors, all wrongs and all sorrows and 
lifts to heavenly homes even the unbeliever, whose ignor- 
ance may not be so far from truth as the believer whose 
knowledge of heavenly love may have been grafted on a 



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tree of ignorance which could furnish so little sustenance 
for true knowledge that the fruit never ripens, and is, there- 
fore, unfit to feed the light of wisdom, which should lead 
all to the open door of Heaven fully clothed with the gar- 
ments of truth. 

The first sensation usually experienced by spirits after 
shaking off the outer covering is an indescribable feeling 
of freedom. Hope springs into life so bright and fair that 
many have told me they felt like shouting with joy, even 
while conscious of the sorrow experienced by their friends 
at what they supposed was their endless sleep. 

But my first sensation was one of surprise and I stood 
by my worn out rags as one dazed by a blow until aroused 
by a voice of such sweetness that it awakened a blissful 
feeling in my heart and I felt that an angel was calling me 
to Heaven. 

I then looked up and the vision I beheld convinced me 
that an angel was summoning me to follow her, for the 
musical sounds issuing from the light surrounding her were 
not of mortal tone or words. I then said: 

" I will come with you but must be dressed in proper 
clothing," and stooped to pick up what I supposed was my 
body, when a feeling of repulsion entered my whole being 
and I hurried away from the filth my spirit form could not 
touch. 

I was then led by my angel guide into the light above 
my earthly home and was soon surrounded by many 
men and women whom I had known on earth, but whom I 
supposed were dead, as I had seen them put under the 
ground and well covered to keep them from escaping . For 
the first time I became frightened, when one man relieved 
me very much by saying : 

" Do not be alarmed, Ingersoll, you are in your heav- 
enly home, a place you never expected to see.' 7 



Then one after another grasped my hand so kindly and 
lovingly that I began to feel happier than I had ever felt 
before and I know from observation as well as experience 
that I was happier than the average mortal while on earth . 

In a short time the spirit forms of my dear father and 
mother were brought to me and then my cup of joy seemed 
overflowing with happiness. The mother's kiss of welcome 
seemed to swell my heart with a life time of love which 
had grown in heavenly light for my acceptance and eter- 
nal welfare. 

The words of love and welcome received from friends 
and relatives continued to increase until it seemed there 
was not one absent face, whom I had ever known or spoken 
a kind work to, who did not stand around me with such 
love-lit countenances that they looked superior to any mor- 
tal faces I had ever seen. I, too, began to imagine I must 
be better than I ever had been, or my friends would not 
seem so happy in my company. I saw one old friend 
whom I had known on earth, whose aged and wrinkled 
face sometimes made me wish I might escape the ravages 
of time; but his face now looked young, free from care and 
almost beautiful in its new form. 

" My dear old friend," I said, "have you found the 
fountain of youth since I saw you last or am I only dream- 
ing that I see you with a new face?" 

"No," he replied, "you see the spiritual formation, 
which you were too bliud to recognize while in your mor- 
tal body. You, too, appear, in a fuller light of spiritual 
growth, much brighter and happier and will learn that 
spiritual laws, when properly understood, are far superior 
to physical laws and their trilling evolvements." 

The pleasure I enjoyed while greeting so many happy 
looking friends, whose faces 1 never expected to look upon 
again, kept me from realizing the great change which had 
caused this wonderful reunion, but quick as my passing 



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out, my thoughts flew to my wife and children , and I said: 

"I must go back to them." 

Then I was brought back to my earthly home by my 
angel guide, whose kindness and sweet words of caution 
impressed me as really unnecessary for I felt so happy that 
I feared no evil ; but as I entered the presence of my dear 
wife and children my heart received a shock which it had 
never experienced before and never will again. 

I endured untold agony for some days. I was just as 
close to my loved ones as I had ever been while in my mortal 
clothing, but they could not see me nor hear me speak to 
them. I remained with them during the trial they endured 
at parting from what they believed my remains, but which 
I loathed as something so hideous that I never rested until 
I saw it put out of sight forever. I soon realized that 
every effort I made to comfort my sorrowing ones only in- 
creased their grief, and at last I called to my angel guide 
to please take me where I belonged, as death had placed a 
barrier between my living loved ones and myself which I 
could not overcome. 

"This barrier you will overcome in time," she sweetly 
rex>lied, "and be able to return to your loved ones without 
the sorrowful sensations you now endure. Time will wipe 
away their tears and you will be able to enjoy their com- 
pany and even comfort them in their thoughts through the 
spiritual laws, in which you will be instructed by higher 
spirits." 

My guide then led me to the most beautiful resting 
place. No words are adequate to describe the construction 
and location of my reclining seat or couch. The blissful 
rest I enjoyed cannot be imagined by mortals; the most 
perfect peace seemed to enter my soul and I turned to my 
beautiful angel guide and remarked that this was greater 
pleasure than I was entitled to receive, for I had enjoyed all 



the comforts of earthly life and they were rude in compar- 
ison to the haven of rest I was then enjoying. 

"All mortals should enter here ready to receive their 
birthright, the endless love of God, which has prepared the 
homes for all His children, but which many fail to accept 
until they are freed from earthly errors." 

I did not make any reply to this, feeling that I had 
erred, but supposing I had been fortunate enough to slip in 
by some accident and had not been observed by the holder 
of the key to Heaven; but, like many others, held my 
peace, believing silence might be better than words which 
would give my true character the light that would stamp 
me as one who had not really believed in God's love and 
kindness. 

The rest and peace which filled my being kept me very 
happy for some time. Earth and its inhabitants seemed to 
be forgotten and the purity of my surroundings impressed 
me as something marvelous. I saw angels and spirits 
mingling and working in such perfect harmony that sin 
and sinners seemed to have been left behind, and I smiled 
at the bright lights of love and turned to my guide and 
remarked : "I hope I will not awaken from this peaceful 
rest to find I have been ushered into the wrong mansion! " 

"No," she replied, "you will find mistakes are of 
earthly growth, but heavenly love works even errors to 
perfection when the spiritual mind is fully awakened." 

How long I remained in that peaceful state of mind I 
am unable to say, as I felt too happy to measure time, even 
had I been able to do so ; but after some time had elapsed 
I began to awaken to a strange feeling of unrest or more 
earthly sensations, and became alarmed, for I seemed to 
recognize the events appearing before my mental vision as 
earthly experiences and they became stronger and plainer 
until I felt very unhappy at some of the things I saw and 
heard. At last I called my angel guide and requested her 



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to explain this, the first trouble I had felt since entering 
my new home. 

"Peace be with you," she kindly answered, you are 
only reviewing your past life." 

I then felt better satisfied, but many times during this 
trying ordeal I called my angel guide and begged her to 
take me back to earth and give me an opportunity to purge 
my work of the errors I knew I had made in my efforts to 
enlighten mankind. 

"No," she replied, "here you must remain until you 
are fully satisfied, and purity and virtue will make you free" 

"I do not understand this, " I replied. 

"You will later," she answered. "You are now repent- 
ing of your errors. When you have balanced your errors of 
judgment against your true lights in spirituality you will 
find, qgtii believe, that purity and virtue will show a balance 
over your errors of judgment. This will give you the light 
to understand the law of eternal justice, which weighs all 
in the balance. Repent now and try to overcome your er- 
rors and you will be helped in every way you desire." 

"Does this work keep me in this beautiful world?" I 
ventured to remark. 

"Yes. Your spiritual mind will be fully awakened when 
you have freed it from all errors, and the spiritual laws 
will give you the power to work out all errors. You will 
understand the laws of the universe and be able to travel 
all over the earth plane with the swiftness of lightning. Re- 
pent now and enjoy the blessings awaiting the pure minded" 

When she had finished speaking I thanked her and 
continued the work of repentance which I felt sure I had 
been given to do. While my angel guide seemed to be near 
me her presence did not annoy me, for I seemed to feel Unit, 
by some strange law or force, I was entirely alone and often, 
during this trying ordeal, earnestly thanked the mysteri- 






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ous condition which placed me away from the other spirits. 
Not one spirit entered my presence during my trial. When 
I realized this highly beautiful light of wisdom, which burns 
without a flaw, I sent up a blessing to the lights above 
for this, the greatest judgment ever created — a judgment 
which all must meet, and yet which carries no disgrace to 
mark the offender, as none are permitted to witness the re- 
cord charged up against you. Duty alone bears light, and 
the searching light of truth burns your soul with the 
stain of sin. 

Some times my work was very pleasant. At other 
times I felt depressed and sad when I encountered an error 
that made me recognize the fact that my ignorance of this 
beautiful world had kept me from assisting my fellow-man 
to greater hope and light. At other stages the events 
come sailing along in the bright light of purity and love, 
Then I felt very happy and contented, and in the hap- 
pier state of mind seemed to forget the darkened condition 
caused by errors of judgment or unkindness. 

I am iirnily convinced that not one kind or unkind 
thought, word or deed of my whole earthly life was omit- 
ted in this review. Many events I had forgotten all about 
loomed up like angry clouds ready to deluge me for some 
angry thought or word toward mortal foe. But the light 
of reason, now so strongly burning for my guidance, helped 
me to scatter the clouds and then the raindrops of purer 
love awakened in my heart seemed to shed forgiveness on 
my error and it passed out of my sight never to return. 

In time all these experiences seemed to disappear and 
I felt relieved to find 1 was still in the same happy condi- 
tion which had been mine before the weighing of my good 
and evil deeds had commenced ; as there appeared no re- 
occurrence of the sensations I ventured to remark to my 
angel guide: 



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"It is remarkable that I am kept so long in one spot. I 
feel very restless and have a desire to move about.' 7 

"This indicates that you are ready to receive instruc- 
tions in the spiritual laws," she replied, "but you must 
call a higher intelligence than your own." 

I replied that I was not competent to judge and my 
guide replied : 

"I will call an instructor." 

Within a short time my dear mother's spirit form was 
brought to me and from her sweet heavenly lips I received 
instructions in the greatest, grandest and most wonderful 
philosophy in the universe — truth bared of all folly, shams 
and deception in regard to the only true God, a God so 
mighty and so kind that all His children will some day 
learn to obey His laws and enter into their birthright, eter- 
nal love and peace. 

The instructions given me by my mother enabled me 
to move about without a guide, and I then visited my own 
dear ones very often. While they could not see me or 
hear me speak to them I soon felt no repelling force on that 
account, for through the law of telepathy I learned to 
reach their hearts with cheering thoughts when they 
longed to have me with them. My joy at this heavenly 
blessing has been the source to greater light than any other 
evolvement. The comfort this knowledge gave me lead me 
higher in the realms of light by the heartfelt thanks I sent 
out daily towards the eternal wisdom from the infinite 
source of all knowledge. 

I was instructed in the power to propel my spirit with 
such wonderful results that mortals, ignorant of the laws 
of nature, would be frightened could they see the invisible 
forms of heavenly homes entering and departing from the 
higher and lower spheres. 

The swiftness of light does not express the speed with 
which we are gifted. Your own thought, when it reaches 



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friend or foe far distant from your side, is nearer the 
truth than any other comparison I can give in regard to 
the spiritual power to travel around and above you. 

The next lessons which my dear mother gave the son 
she now received with love unhampered with earthly lusts 
and gross material growths were even more beautiful and 
elevating. This was the language of love. This language 
is musical in its tones and no music on earth can equal its 
sweetness. Tuned in harmony with heavenly vibrations 
every word or thought, for you can hardly say spoken, 
flows from the lips of the more highly developed spirits 
like musical notes so sweet aud pure that no mortal could 
catch the finer tones without falling on their knees enrap- 
tured with the sound. 

To attempt to give you even a faint description of the 
holy work of my dear mother is useless. The mortal mind 
is, when compared to the spirit mind, like a block of wood 
or stone. The only mortals on earth whose ideas are even 
alive to the truth are those whose whole spiritual natures 
are aroused and reaching for and receiving light from 
minds freed from mortal clothing. 

When I had mastered the arts (from my earthly stand- 
point of knowledge) of propelling my body properly and 
conversing in silent language with the higher developed 
minds I visited all my own friends and relatives, both 
heavenly and earthly, and learned some wonderful things 
about the universal light of wisdom and knowledge. 

When I was developed enough to visit the higher 
spheres I was guided by an angel chosen for that work, as 
her power to carry me above my own sphere was so much 
purer in its light that she could overcome any fear or 
doubt I might have encountered by my mind not sensing 
the truth, and thereby keeping me from entering the holi- 
er states of blissful joy. 

I will not attempt to give a very minute description of 



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the heavenly spheres. My language is incapable of ex- 
pressing even a shadow of the truth, and then I fear both 
friend and foe might question my words and pronounce the 
description a dream, so unreal, so wonderful and so false, 
that Ingersoll would be looked upon as the greatest liar 
who had ever undertaken to decribe the mansions above 
the skies. All will be plainer by and by and I will give a 
short description to prepare you for the greater knowledge 
you will all some day be able to grasp when you lay aside 
your material minds and come here with the spirit mind 
pure and strongly charged with spiritual desires. 

I will try and give a faint idea of my own sphere, and 
as my tongue cannot grasp the words fitted to give it jus- 
tice surely no words of mine can portray in fitting beauty 
still higher mansions of love. 

My work had only placed me in the third sphere, but 
I will take this opportunity of informing you that I am 
steadily ascending and this work will not hinder, but will 
add lustre to my soul. I have advanced from the third to 
the fifth sphere and the one I entered I will try to describe. 

Its location is far above the skies, which mortals some- 
times believe is heaven, but which we know is only a part 
of the misty atmosphere around you. The construction of 
the sphere I am attempting to describe is not composed of 
silver and gold, as some orthodox ministers are wont to de- 
scribe the mansions above. It is less earthly and is formed 
of material which I will liken to unadulterated morality, 
if you can open your souls to receive such an idea. I fear 
I could never have grasped this truth, but know the earth 
plane to day holds many minds so pure in thought and de- 
sire that my words will not be looked upon as impossible 
truth. 

Truth can only enter the mind which is purified by 
the heart awakened through natural love for all mankind, 
and this opens the soul to receive the divine light from 



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above and see with almost perfect vision the Almighty love 
that reaches every heart. This awakened consciousness 
knows no high, low, educated or uneducated, rich, poor, 
black or white, Christian or heathen, but understands the 
law that saves by works, not words; kindness and love, not 
idle words and forms and creeds. 

The appearance of the sphere I entered with such 
pleasure bears no resemblance to any formation visible to 
mortal vision. Lights seem to penetrate and interpene- 
trate what seems to be the principal elements forming the 
heavenly mansions, which you have all heard were not 
made with hands. This you need have no fear of accept- 
ing as true, for no mortal could construct or comprehend 
the constructive art which combined the perfect work. 
The mind of the originator was perfect and perfect work 
is the result. 

The beauties of my own sphere were not composed of 
simple ornamental work which mortals design to embellish 
earthly mansions. The ornaments of the heavenly man- 
sions are living beauties begotten through the heart. All 
the spirits and angels are clothed in their own good 
thoughts, words and deeds. This may seem, to the mor- 
tal mind, silly, but you must admit the fact that even mor- 
tal ideas, when good and pure, are far more lasting and 
and even more beautiful than the woven material used to 
clothe the physical body. 

The angels and spirits in my own sphere looked 
beautiful and bright, but as we approached the entrance 
to the sphere above my own my heart leaped with such 
a thrill of delight that I placed my hand over my weaker 
developed power for good, as I felt sure it would not re- 
main within my spirit form. The spirits inhabiting this 
sphere looked even more beautiful than the inhabitants in 
my own home, and their garments were so fine and 
beautiful that I felt sure angel hands had been the weavers. 
I spoke to my guide about this and she replied : 



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"Yes, but the work is all done by pure and holy 
thoughts, not the hands of the weavers. While the work 
seems very delicate to your vision its lasting qualities will 
only give way to greater beauty. We will now enter and 
you will see greater wonders." 

I never spoke again until I had returned to my own 
sphere. The wonderful and beautiful works I saw were 
too much for my developed spiritual mind, and by remain- 
ing silent I seemed to grasp the fuller meaning of much 
that was shown me by my guide, whose kind and loving 
words opened many mysteries of the universe to my better 
understanding. 

There were spirits so developed for good work that 
their thoughts shone out like lights of love and kindness 
which seemed to penetrate the heavenly mansions, and I 
was told even reached the earth plane when mortals were 
touched with the true desire to help their fellow man or 
woman. 

Then there were intelligences whose mental lights of 
wisdom and knowledge had grown in heavenly truth until 
they, too, looked so wonderfully charged with power that 
I felt drawn to them by a sincere desire to learn the truth 
as I felt it existed, not by knowledge gained by man's light, 
but the knowledge that comes from natural laws. 

There are minds here so developed that one thought 
of theirs puts in operation endless chains of knowledge that 
reach the inhabitants of the earth plane when any mortal 
desires to accomplish any work which these higher intel- 
ligences deem elevating enough to require their assistance. 
When they feel this desire of the mortal mind they touch 
the key of knowledge and wisdom and send to their weaker 
power, or mortal mind, just what this mind is capable of 
grasping. This has given the works called inspired writ- 
ings, and there should be better light turned on some so- 
called inspired writings before all such writings will bear 
the searching eye of truth. 

There have been inspirational writers and lecturers of 



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the past, and even present period, whose ideas were not 
always gained from the higher sources, but whose own 
minds were discolored with rank growths, which destroyed 
the better thoughts entering from above, and this discord 
stopped the higher lights and they withdrew their helpful 
thoughts. 

The wonderful works engaged in by the spirits work- 
ing out their own desires awakened in my spiritual mind a 
desire to accomplish some elevating work in touch with 
my true nature. 

There are evolved souls here so beautiful, so bright 
and so pure in their hearts' desires that they can be com- 
pared to nothing earthly. Bliss and joy have crowned them 
and their crowns shine as no brilliants on earth can ever 
shine. These brighter lights of love and kindness have 
gained eternal glory, but still send out priceless love to give 
the less fortunate an opportunity to ascend. 

Turning from the scenes no mortal could see and live 
I returned to my own abiding place, feeling that mortal 
life was indeed full of vanity and woe, and that only the 
spirit within the flesh was worthy of respect. Could the 
decaying mortal clothing only be made to serve its true 
purpose how much misery would be avoided on earth. 

The beautiful sights I witnessed would turn the basest 
man into a saint, and the music here enjoyed is so heavenly 
charged that its notes thrill the hearers with perfect love. 

The paths to evolve every talent are here open for all 
pure enough to enter the higher evolving life. The univer- 
sity of nature is not furnished to enrich the rich. The 
poorest and most ignorant men and women are here given 
every opportunity to evolve every talent or gift, whether of 
the arts or sciences. To these spirits much information 
and so-called inventions of mortals is due. 

When spirits have been deprived of the opportunity to 
complete their gifts while on earth they lose no time here, 
and then they invariably work out their own ideas through 



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mortal minds, when they succeed in coming in contact with 
a mind seeking for the light to evolve the same desire. 

The lower inhabitants of the spheres are symbolical of 
earthly life. To paint their woes is not my mission, but 
could you all stand on the unclouded border between the 
two worlds you would choose the better path and serve the 
soul's true light and give the baser man and woman within 
your outer covering no opportunity to work for the evil 
you should not encourage. 

There are evil spirits, my friends, and these evil spirits 
are not the devil's host you have heard of in your orthodox 
churches. They are simply creations of mortal lives. The 
familiar spirit is the demon in your own heart and mind, 
and when you have overcome the evil you love so much you 
have then cast from you the familiar spirit your lusts create. 

The good inherent in all is the higher power, and this 
good carries the light of love, which grows so strong that 
the sight of one of these higher developed spirits would 
frighten an impure mortal far more than the sight of the 
devil you all fear so much, for the impurity existing in the 
mortal mind and heart could not endure the strong light of 
purity shining forth from the pure spirits of heavenly 
mansions. 

I will now give a few words of encouragement and ad- 
vice to my bigoted friends, materialists, deist, Christian and 
unbeliever, Protestant and Catholic, broad and liberal- 
minded : 

Heaven is not ruled by forms and creeds, but true love 
and God Almighty's laws. 

Could I reach you with my tongue a thousand times 
more strong than human tongue can speak I would warn 
you, encourage you and put into your hearts the light of 
truth so strong that it would burn into your souls and open 
the path to true religious ideas — the law of human kindness, 
which, when obeyed, opens the door of heaven and lets 
the sunshine of eternal love flow into the evil surround- 
ing the ignorant and sheds the light of intelligence abroad 



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by recognizing the infinite love imbedded in the hearts of 
all God's children. 

Under this law the light of truth shines forth and the 
shadows surrounding the unfortunate, who have been the 
victims of man's unkindness, grow dim as the door of 
heaven opens to receive with sheltering arms even the 
basest, whose errors are then touched with the love that 
burns in the hearts of all — God's holy light of eternal life. 
The beautiful light within the erring one must be quick- 
ened into life by the nobler lights from the shores of eternal 
peace. 

My warnings are not for the wrong-doer alone, but 
for the Pharisaical Christian, who has much more to repent 
of sometimes than the unfortunate whose earthly life was 
devoid of the surroundings and circumstances needed to 
help him seek for light. 

The prayers that do not awaken true love for all 
mankind in your heart are vain indeed. They are dead 
fruit that poisons the suppliant, for they remain within 
your inner consciousness and come forth hereafter to mock 
your soul for believing in your power to reach heaven with 
shallow prayers not tuned in harmony with its love and 
light. 

The errors of judgment, I wish to impress upon all, 
are the hardest to overcome. In justice to yourselves, as 
well as humanity, condemn not one soul for not believing 
as you do. ''Judge not," you have been told by your great- 
est teacher, is the law, and the one who condemns, by 
thought or word, one soul to endless misery has placed 
upon his own soul a blacker mark than any unbeliever or 
scoffer could possibly do. 

When men and women use their minds to condemn the 
good inherent in every mortal born through God's holy 
law they have placed upon their own souls the judgment 
that cannot fail to burn with almost the same torturing 
horrors as the pitiless work of the devil they are serving 
when they create a hell in their own mind by condemning 



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forever a soul linked forever to the soul of the universe. 
This has placed in the lowest depths of despair many men 
and women who are to-day honored and even sanctified 
by mortals for having done what they supposed great work 
for their God. But could I lift the veil of the lower realms 
you would see and hear the victims of their own ignorance 
cry to heaven to drown the cries of their victims and open 
their eyes to the light which their mis judgment had placed 
beneath their feet. 

You may believe I am drawing a fancy picture, my 
dear friends, but for the love of yourself, if not your fel- 
low man, judge not what you do not believe, nor condemn 
not what is not absolutely wicked in the light of human 
kindness. Then remember that if man is capable of kind- 
ness and love the Creator of the universe is incapable of 
less love and kindness, and you are only a weak and ignor- 
ant vessel, touched with a spark for greater light, and when 
you wilfully destroy a human body you have done the 
utmost in your power. The destruction of the soul is be- 
yond your power, but you can so blacken your own soul 
by the desire to send others to your imaginary hell, that 
when you throw aside your mortal clothing you will see 
your soul marked with your evil intentions and hellish 
work, and ages may find you reaping, as you have sown, 
the seeds of hate and malice, and your victims reaping in 
your errors all the joys of eternal love in the mansions far 
above. 

To the unfortunate men and women, whose circum- 
stances and environments gave them nothing but care and 
sorrow from the beginning to the end of life's journey, my 
encouragement will be given. Life after shaking off the 
mortal covering gives you the most blissful feelings of joy. 
Every pain and sorrow seems to have been a means to lift 
you higher in the realms of bliss, and you feel sure your 
earthly trials have brought you this crowning reward. 

Troubles which seem so hard to bear and which have 
tempted many to shake off the mortal clothing before na- 



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ture has finished her work, must be carried by the ones 
cursed by earthty environ meets unless they can overcome 
their evil lot by natural laws. Xo law of nature can be 
be broken without the offender being punished. To take 
life, whether your own or another, stamps you as a breaker 
of the law. Your victim may be placed high by your 
wicked work, for you have released him by adopting some 
natural destroying power. But when you take your own 
life to escape earth's hardships you have simply darkened 
your spiritual formation and deprived it of light to ascend, 
and suffer far more after passing out in that manner than 
you did while in the body, for you have added murder to 
your other ills. 

Bear patiently the trials of life and seek release from 
errors of judgment and ignorance by looking beyond the 
narrow confines of your environments and the journey will 
end in a joyous light of freedom, which will carry you so 
far above earth\s sorrows that you will look back over the 
paths your weary mortal feet had traveled and thank every 
hardship you had endured for the experiences which had 
broadened your understanding, without which you would 
not be able to accept the light so freely offered your spirit 
when it receives its freedom by nature's work. 

To explain all the mysteries of life is not my privilege. 
I have sought and found much light, and know that the 
mortal whose earthly life was perfectly free from care and 
unclouded with any evil surroundings does not enter into 
the fullness of the spiritual light as readily as the less for- 
tunate, whose life had been lived in toil and poverty. The 
secret of this may be hidden within the lesser inheritor of 
heavenly riches. There seems to be elements in the hu- 
man heart and mind which can only be aroused by hard 
work and sorrow, either for material help or in efforts to 
help the less fortunate bear their burdens. 

The sorrows of earthly life are not burdens when the 
light of heavenly love penetrates the true intelligence. 



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Every sorrow endured by the poor and afflicted 
opens the seeds of wisdom, which should ripen for all. 
These seeds are the evolving lights, and when not given 
any attention they sink the possessor down in the path 
of selfishness and even heartlessness. 

The heart that never felt the loss of some loved one 
is incapable of human sympathy unless it is naturally 
alive to humanity's needs. Draw to the surface the 
seeds of love and kindness and let them ripen in the light 
of truth, the wisdom that finds strength in sorrow and 
pain, and you will bless every pain, sorrow and care you 
endured on earth, for you will come here prepared to 
reap as you have sown, and the harvest will be so 
abundant that you will long to shout aloud the glorious 
truth that out of evil some good must come to the reap- 
er who sows no tares of ill-will. 

The heavenly mansions are lighted with love. These 
mansions are waiting for all the children of earth. Di- 
vine love has created every mortal, and this divinity 
links together every soul born through God's love. 
Bright and beautiful appear some links. Base and vice 
eaten many others, and the better soul sometimes seems 
to be completely hidden beneath the rust and frith, 
which, like the outer covering of the body, hides the light 
within. But though centuries may elapse before the 
purity is uncovered the spark from the infinite source 
must be brought forth and purified with God's love, the 
only purifying light that never dies. 

The heavenly mansions are bright with love that 
tarnishes not. The law of kindness and love rules 
every heart. The lower spirits obey the 1 higher and all 
are brought into the fold of rightousness through the 
law that governs and never offends, even the basest. 
There are attracting forces which direct the footsteps of 
all. The law of attraction draws together kindred souls 
and the repelling force disobeys the elements and scat 
ters the inharmonious, and through these two powerful 



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forces the harmonious life here is never disturbed. The 
attracting power feels its true guide and heaven is 
heaven indeed, for all are in their natural abiding place 
and never offend or are offended by ones in opposition to 
their own lights of understanding. 

The law of attraction binds together the elements 
which link the highest and lowest, like rays of light 
tinged with heavenly love, and this love never ceases 
to bear fruit until all are purged with true spiritual 
knowledge, which leads all to the highest realm of bliss, 
never again to enter the earth plane except as thought 
force charged with heavenly light. 

For the benefit of the writer, whose kindness and 
patience enable me to sent out this message, I have this 
to say in regard to God Almighty, whose personality she 
questions, as her own knowledge depends not on what 
she has heard and read: 

The light of truth is entering your soul from higher 
intelligences than mine and you need not fear to accept 
whatever they bring to you. The Almighty Love of God 
is true, but as you do not comprehend even the soul that 
animates your own mind how much more difficult must 
it be to comprehend the soul of the Universal Mind. 

I know that we are all destined for higher evolve- 
nient through the mighty love of God Almighty, but to 
try to define this mighty light of love I would have to be 
wiser than the wisest who ever lived on earth and holier 
than the holiest mind capable of communicating with 
and through the mortal mind, which is not evolved light, 
but evolving light for a perfect mind and heart. 

This message, which I have inspired through the 
kind friend whose courage and patience may meet with 
condemnation by the ignorant and bigoted, is the work 
of my own mind and all who doubt the source will learn 
in lime that I am not dead nor sleeping, but have entered 
into the true life, which is not formed of destructible, 
but of imperishable material. Here I will welcome with 
true' brotherly love even the earthly foe who may deny 
me a heavenly rest, for heavenly love is now my strength 
and welcoming power is* my light. 

ROBERT G. IXGERSOLL. 



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